"The best mirror is an old friend."
"Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on."
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Source: George Herbert (1703). “The temple, sacred poems and private ejaculations. [With] The synagogue”, p.12
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